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We consider the problem of estimating the 3D motion of an articulated object, such as a robot arm or a human body, from a monocular sequence of 2D perspective views. We advocate an approach of decomposition. The object under analysis is decomposed into simpler parts, each containing a small number of links. We first estimate the motion of the simplest part(s) and then propagate the analysis to...